Derek Winnert

Reviews

Diagnosis: Murder ** (1974, Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 11,041

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1974 crime mystery Diagnosis: Murder is a rather weary and drab production-line Seventies British thriller that seems older even than its years, about psychiatrist Dr Stephen Hayward (Christopher Lee) accused in anonymous […]

Mar, 24

What the Butler Saw ** (1950, Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison, Mercy Haystead) – Classic Movie Review 11,040

‘Get an eyeful of this!’ Director Godfrey Grayson’s hour-long farcical 1950 black and white British comedy What the Butler Saw is made by Hammer Films and stars Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison and Mercy Haystead in […]

Mar, 24

Someone at the Door ** (1950, Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh, Yvonne Owen, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,039

‘Let yourself in for a Big Laugh!’ Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British Hammer Films black and white comedy mystery thriller Someone at the Door stars Michael Medwin, Yvonne Owen, Garry Marsh, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green, […]

Mar, 23

The Devil’s Rain ** (1975, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn, John Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 11,038

‘Heaven help us all when The Devil’s Rain! The ULTIMATE in Satanic possession!’ A first-rate cast of old reliables is largely wasted in director Robert Fuest’s occasionally interesting and creepy, but often daft and kitsch […]

Mar, 23

Room to Let *** (1950, Jimmy Hanley, Valentine Dyall, Christine Silver) – Classic Movie Review 11,037

‘I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why – I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.’ Hammer Films’ 1950 mystery thriller film […]

Mar, 22

The Man in Black ** (1949, Betty Ann Davies, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood, Sheila Burrell, Valentine Dyall) – Classic Movie Review 11,035

Director Francis Searle’s artificial but intriguing 1949 British Hammer Films Gaslight-style thriller The Man in Black stars Sidney James as a yoga expert called Henry Clavering, who pretends to be dead, using his yoga skills, […]

Mar, 22

Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] *** (1974, Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown, Brian Deacon, Sally Faulkner, Michael Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 11,034

‘They shared the pleasures of the flesh, and the horrors of the grave!’ Spanish exploitation director José Ramón Larraz’s provocative, erotic and bloody 1974 British soft-core lesbian vampire horror film Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] stars […]

Mar, 22

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